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27-07-2022, 12:01 PM
#151
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Bulldog4life
Heard him say earlier in the year he was playing a more defensive role. Now they have taken the shackles off him he was much happier.
Merrett, defend?... He plays the game completely on his terms.
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27-07-2022, 12:10 PM
#152
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
I reckon they're about right. I picked them to be bottom 4-6. Really overachieved last season. They've look like they've let the handbrake off when the season is done and dusted which may be not a true indication of where they're at.
Only game I've been surprised with is the Swans one.
I understand that thinking - I view the competition as being pretty even excluding the bottom 2 teams, and winning your close games makes all the difference as to whether you are in or out of the 8. I tend to think that early in the season for whatever reason the Dons were a little off the boil and didnt win any close games. They've got their game up and running and are more threatening now. They dont have an over abundance of talent but they are playing more cohesively and giving themselves a shot.
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28-07-2022, 07:49 AM
#153
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Bulldog Revolution
I understand that thinking - I view the competition as being pretty even excluding the bottom 2 teams, and winning your close games makes all the difference as to whether you are in or out of the 8. I tend to think that early in the season for whatever reason the Dons were a little off the boil and didnt win any close games. They've got their game up and running and are more threatening now. They dont have an over abundance of talent but they are playing more cohesively and giving themselves a shot.
In the 1st 10 rounds of the season they were 1-1 for games under 2 goals.
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28-07-2022, 09:43 AM
#154
Re: North Melbourne
Anyone else badly need a team to not choke/belt Collingwood so we never have to hear about their “situational training” again?
I’m pretty sure actually every team could move the ball from end to end in 10 seconds if the other team decides not to defend them at all.
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28-07-2022, 10:52 AM
#155
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Happy Days
Anyone else badly need a team to not choke/belt Collingwood so we never have to hear about their “situational training” again?
I’m pretty sure actually every team could move the ball from end to end in 10 seconds if the other team decides not to defend them at all.
And I imagine most teams planning would not involve the last play being a 2 on 1 mark where 90% of the work was from the opposition misreading the flight.
I should leave it alone but you're not right
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28-07-2022, 12:13 PM
#156
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Mantis
Merrett, defend?... He plays the game completely on his terms.
Not according to Zach. You can hear it in the first minute if interested. Said he was playing in back half.
https://www.essendonfc.com.au/video/...fl-360-july-19
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04-08-2022, 03:38 PM
#157
Re: North Melbourne
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/tea...78a8a822c33bc0
Roos ‘a real chance’ of signing Clarko after launching ‘all in’ bid.
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04-08-2022, 03:59 PM
#158
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Bulldog4life
The article refers to Clarko having already put "his team" together. Who would be his assistant/other field? Most seem to have moved onto greener pastures.
"I'll give him a hug before the first bounce and then I'll run into my pack and give them orders to rip him apart."
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19-08-2022, 10:00 AM
#159
Re: North Melbourne
Damien Barrett is reporting that Clarkson will coach North.
Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"
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19-08-2022, 10:01 AM
#160
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
Damien Barrett is reporting that Clarkson will coach North.
Good for North to have an ex player who has coached 4 premierships to come in.
FFC: Established 1883
Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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19-08-2022, 10:03 AM
#161
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19-08-2022, 10:04 AM
#162
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
Damien Barrett is reporting that Clarkson will coach North.
Where does that leave the Essendon board members who treated Rutten like dirt?
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19-08-2022, 10:09 AM
#163
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
Grantysghost
Where does that leave the Essendon board members who treated Rutten like dirt?
Hopefully in this extended purgatory we’ve all been enjoying since 2004.
Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.
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19-08-2022, 10:10 AM
#164
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
grantysghost
where does that leave the essendon board members who treated rutten like dirt?
Originally Posted by
comrade
hopefully in this extended purgatory we’ve all been enjoying since 2004.
>>>enter james hird<<<
More of an In Bruges guy?
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19-08-2022, 10:10 AM
#165
Re: North Melbourne
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
Damien Barrett is reporting that Clarkson will coach North.
Every other media organisation has now jumped on...
Surely they all couldn't be wrong... oh wait... Ben Rutten being sacked on Monday...
More of an In Bruges guy?